Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-16
TRAINING HANDS AND HEAD.
What is Being Accomplished Among the
Youths of Hampton Institute.

What is Being Accomplished Among tho
| Youths of Hampton Institute.
| These negro and Indian youths come with
no good background to exercise its uncon-
scious but most potent influence in shaping
their lves-rather the reverse is true. This
whole life must be reformatory, an uplifting
| out Of dark and undesirable conditions and
| tendencies. There must be reform, not for
conscious misdoing, but for circumstancing,
| of misfortune, and not Of fault. Gen. Arm
| strongs pupils are up at $50 in the morning,
| put in ten solid hours Of work, manual and
with books, and go to bed at $50. Each hour
has its duty. its occupation, or its response
bility-and the vast machine is distinctly a
success
As the negroes and Indians work side by
side on the farm and in the shops their
natural traits are conspicuously illustrated.
The Indian is the quicker, the more agile on a
squirt; but his black brother has vastly more
staying power. The Indian has the more
able and nimble legs, but the negro is better
developed in the chest and arms-all because
of very obvious reasons. Gen. Armstrong
says his best students are those who work all
day and have only two hours for study at
night. The same thing made manhood more
robust in the fine type of men who worked
their way through college and are to-day
rather impatient that all boys are not put to
the school of adversely which they remember
with pride.
Work and an atmosphere Of moral refine
ment are doing much for these picked repre-
sentatives of the red and black, and it is in
teresting to discover that the day scholars
those who live outside the institution-do not
turn out so well. One side of their life lets
them down too much.
The home farm employs thirteen students
all day, with a detail Of forty-five who aver
age one and half days week; its products
are ten acres of early peas, ten Of Irish pota-
toes, ninety Of sweet potatoes, fifteen Of oats,
two of cabbage and onions, two Of spinach
and kale; forty-fou acres are seeded to clover
166 to corn fodder, forty-six to rye, and ITO
acres are under cultivation in garden and
orchard. The Hemenway farm, about five
miles distant, has 112 acres in corn, forty
three in wheat, LOG in oats, eighty in clover
and 200 in pasture.
The Huntington industrial works-saw mill
and wood working shop-where 5000, 900
feet Of pine, poplar and oak, brought in RATS
through the canal Of the Dismal swamp from
the forests of North Carolina and Virginia,
have been worked up in the year; the depart
ment of household work, the caring for this
great family of 600, which offers a field for
training that housewives will appreciate; the
dressmaking and tailoring departments,
where uniforms, dresses and shirts are made;
the printing office and bindery, which has
created demand for colored printers that
cannot be supplied-and where four years are
required for mastering the art of bookmaking;
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afford means Of self support, and stimulate
the quickness that piece work always begets;
the engineers department, the Indian train
ing shops, eight in all, giving instructions in
as many trades - wood working. carving,
carpentering, harness making, shoemaking,
tinsmithing, painting and blacksmithing, the
greenhouse and the garden-these all attract
and instruct the visitor.-Cor. Springfield
Rapuhlicau